The interface shell of the Family Map web application is slowly coming together, in tandem with my JavaScript / jQuery and CSS skills. After going through several color scheme iterations, I think we finally have a winner? Dynamic placement of users on the map (latitude and longitude) has been working for a while. A lot of platform specific tweaking has been done in order to make the interface look and work good on the iPad (the screenshots are from the application running in the iPad simulator). The currently used font is Cantarell (by Dave Crossland) courtesy of the Google Font API.

There is obviously not to much information on display at the moment, but showing the current weather based on user location is done (Using the awesome and free JSON API provided by worldweatheronline). The jQuery JavaScript framework is used for the JSON parsing as well as some fancy interface animation (the detailed view comes sliding out). I even made a quick and dirty hack of what a Family Map logo could look like.

As soon as we have a JSON representation of the database up and running, things should really start to progress quickly on the application side of things.